A Poetic End

Stylistic Analysis of a Poetic Text: A Case from Persian

Poetic analysis involves the explication of a poem by focusing on the process of semiosis in it. Through semiosis linguistic meaning is transformed into stylistic meaning. An examination of semiosis brings us to look at the hypersemanticized poetic structures which are none other than the style features of a poem. Since style functions in a literary text by conveying meanings other than literal...

“Poetic Realism” in A Streetcar Named Desire

Tennessee Williams attaches great emphasis to the poetic quality of his drama and contributes to the development of the dramatic form, poetic realism, by injecting the elements and spirit of poetry into every aspect of his dramaturgy. The thesis intends to analyze the characteristics and the achievements of the dramatic form of Williams’ “poetic realism” in A Streetcar Named Desire in terms of ...

Fivefolded Asymmetrical Hand: A Poetic Essay

Are Poetic Similes Cognitively Constrained? A Case of Malay Poetic Similes

This study examines the application of Cognitive Constraint Theory (CCT) to Malay poetic similes. Based on this theory, poetic structures like simile, zeugma and synaesthesia are in fact, governed by certain cognitive principles. These principles or “cognitive constraints”, as they are better known within this approach, ensure the interpretability of the poetic structures on the part of the rea...

Poetic Justice: Louis Brandeis’s Epitaph

Louis said from the grave, If I am Remembered, don't make me a sham Of a nice Jewish boy, Or the life of a goy (Not to shul [1], Christmas tree [2], and ate ham [3]). False biography would be a flaw-Don't recount what would stick in my craw And thus bring me to grief. For my spiritual brief Was Democracy. Ideas. The law. (It is clear to me that there's a God. Justice comes from Him. But it's no...